Atiev and D.J. Pataeve walked the a long length of Ontario's Yonge Street, that originates at Lake Ontario and stretches all the way up to the Arctic Circle (depending on how you define the street), taking stop motion images all the way. It's a really lovely bit of video.
Stopping to Take in Yonge Street (Thanks, Jonny!)
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Atiev and D.J. Pataeve walked the a long length of Ontario's Yonge Street, that originates at Lake Ontario and stretches all the way up to the Arctic Circle (depending on how you define the street), taking stop motion images all the way. It's a really lovely bit of video. Stopping to Take in Yon... More.
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I used to live near Cabbagetown in downtown Toronto and Yonge street at night was a regular hotspot I love how you captured the heart of Toronto, downtown Yonge at night. This is awesome. Forgot Yonge street was such a long street!
Having walked 26 miles in a day myself without being at all prepared for it, I can feel their pain. And they were stopping thousands of times along the way too which must have made it even worse. I was just clearing my head in a rather excessive manner. :)
Young Street has a quite definitive end, about 20 miles north of Toronto, just north of Holland Landing. You can check it out on Google Maps.
It is widely known that Yonge Street turns into Highway 11 and continues much further than 20 miles.
Roger, I think Cory was being ironic; at one time, Yonge Street was in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest street in the world, extending to the Minnesota–Ontario border at Rainy River.
That was awesome! Doing that a 40 km walk along Yonge Street is definitely on my "Life's To Do" List. Screw backpacking in Europe, heh.
had to do it at one point... when the power went out I decided to leg it north. I did give up by about half way thorough at highway 7. It was late and I was out of cash by then.
This summer I drove Yonge St from Thunder Bay all the way to Lake Ontario. It’s some of the most beautiful Ontario you’ll ever see. Highly recommend it.
@#1: Actually, if you look west a bit, the 4 north of Bradford becomes Yonge, but then looses (loses?) itself in Barrie.
But yeah, I find the whole "Yonge is the longest street" thing a bit silly. What is "one street"? If the name changes is it a different one? If it interrupted it's the same?
If it becomes the transcan, as #2 suggests, then why not call the entire thing west of Toronto Yonge, and say that it extends to Vancouver (or wherever the transcanada ends up)
I like the music (Angelati - Fixin My Tie), but I cannot find any place to buy it other than itunes. I don't use itunes.
Why not use iTunes, benlong? They've nixed DRM.
Yonge St, or more accurately highway 11, doesn't come anywhere near the Arctic circle by any definition of a street or a highway; not now, and not before it was truncated by the rebuilding of Bradford. It goes around the Great Lakes towards the west
Actually, if they started in Aurora and ended at the lake, technically it's a journey down Yonge street.
Highway 11 swings off to the left, but Young Street continues straight, through Holland Landing. It continues north of Holland Landing, also as Regional Rd. 51, (with a jog to the left for a survey adjustment) for another 2 miles before ending just pass the entrance to the Silver Lakes Golf & Country Club.
Two miles further north the street starts up again (on the same road right-of-way) for another couple miles, before ending again at Lake Simcoe.
A *DIFFERENT* Young Street starts a couple miles west of Holland Landing in Bradford. It runs in parallel to the Toronto-Holland Landing-Lake Simcoe Young Street for a few miles, before continueing on through Barrie and north from there.
I think the Canadian government should just a little more money and extend Yonge Street all the way around the world.
The Highway Bookstore is just outside Cobalt, and saved my life when I was marooned in Cobalt for two years. It's one of the greatest bookstores anywhere, ever. I was particularly addicted to its "bring in three take away two" paperback section (which you buy from at three books for a quarter. It's official address was 100,000 Yonge Street.
I think they actually walked down Yonge Street, not up. Which makes sense, because if you're going to walk 40 klicks you want it to be downhill.
best version of how UGLY Canadian architecture and city planning is... I drove across the country a few years ago, it ALL looks like this, except a few nice buildings and design here and there. and doing it in the fall helped it look even more barren of ideas - do a winter version so I can think harder about moving the hell out of here.
Awesome! Nice dedication to making this happen guys!
iTunes is very buggy running under WINE 1.1.34.